Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragment in Diels, Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker |
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... Orphic writings . It was believed that Orpheus taught , but left no writings , and that the epic poetry attributed to him was written in the sixth century by Onomacritus . The Orphic literature current in the time of the Neo ...
... Orphic writings . It was believed that Orpheus taught , but left no writings , and that the epic poetry attributed to him was written in the sixth century by Onomacritus . The Orphic literature current in the time of the Neo ...
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... Orphic command ) : Ye uninitiated , close the doors ! 8. ( PLATO , Timaeus 40D : the ' descendants of the gods ' , as the Orphics call themselves , give the following account of the origin of the other gods ) : The children of Earth and ...
... Orphic command ) : Ye uninitiated , close the doors ! 8. ( PLATO , Timaeus 40D : the ' descendants of the gods ' , as the Orphics call themselves , give the following account of the origin of the other gods ) : The children of Earth and ...
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... Orphics say that the Sphere is like an Egg , the vault of Heaven being the shell , and the Aether the skin ) . 13. ( DAMASCIUS : The Orphic theogony given in Hieronymus and Hellanicus is not the same : it gives the first two elements as ...
... Orphics say that the Sphere is like an Egg , the vault of Heaven being the shell , and the Aether the skin ) . 13. ( DAMASCIUS : The Orphic theogony given in Hieronymus and Hellanicus is not the same : it gives the first two elements as ...
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ABDÊRA Aether Anaxagoras animals Antiphon Aphrodite ARISTOTLE ATHENS attributed B.C. He wrote barbarians beauty become blood-vessels body called cause CHIOS Cleinias created creatures Critias Cronos Damon daughter death Demeter Democritus Diels Diels-Kranz divine drink earth elements Empedocles Epimenides everlasting everything existing things Fate fifth century B.C. Fire forms fourth century B.C. fragments friends give gods Gorgias Greece Greeks Hades harmony Hate Heaven Hecataeus Heracleitus Heracles Hesiod Homer honour immortal infinite intelligence justice Leucippus limbs live Logos Love mankind means MILÊTUS mind mixed moon mortals Musaeus nature night Non-Limited Not-Being Ocean one's Oration Orpheus Orphic pain Philolaus PLATO pleasure poem prime Prodicus Protagoras Pythagoras Pythagorean rain round separated soul Spartan speech Spurious Stobaeus TARENTUM thought Thrasymachus Title treatise Truth universe virtue whole wind wisdom wise wish word writings survive wrong Xenophanes XENOPHILUS Zeus